Roundup: Obama on the Kiss Cam, Joey Votto Needs Surgery & Needles Found in Airline Food
Nikki Reed … the world’s most annoying bird-watcher … Maria Menounos on the beach, in a bikini … if you’re into journalism, you’ll cringe at this … warning: Sad, gruesome story … movie buffs: agree or disagree with this piece on millennials and old movies? … Jennifer Lopez reportedly wanted a raise on American Idol, so the show dumped her … the Republican readers will love this Al Franken piece … “Needles found in sandwiches on four U.S.-bound Delta flights” … neat data on the police, guns & NYC … Mark Zuckerberg got a 1 percent mortgage because he’s “low risk” … 17 injured in shooting at Alabama bar …
Stephen A. Smith had the stupidest take of all on Jeremy Lin, and it got ripped to shreds. [LoHud]
Matt Forte of the Bears signed a 4-year, $32 million contract. [Sun-Times]
Knee surgery will sideline Joey Votto of the Reds for 3-4 weeks. [Cincinnati.com]
It would be easiest if the NCAA just kicked Penn State out of the NCAA. [Athletic Scholarships]
If Dan Wetzel is writing about Penn State, you should be reading it. [Yahoo]
“We don’t know if he fell. There’s no guarantee he’s actually on the mountain. Alaska’s a very unforgiving country.” [The Daily]
“Report” claimed Maryland AD Kevin Anderson was close to getting the Stanford gig. Then he denied it all. [Chronicle, Post]
The woman who stood up to Joe Paterno. [CNN]
ESPN will be paying $80 million a year for the Rose Bowl. [SBJ]
Jeff Pearlman thinks Joe Posnanski should scrap his book on Joe Paterno. [Blog]
Nice summer league recap of the time Austin Rivers met Damian Lillard. [Blazer's Edge]
Wait, Phil Jackson is thinking about joining the Blazers – ! – in a non-coaching role? [Oregonian]
Mike & Mike are going to be hosting an NFL highlights show that you obviously won’t watch. [B&C]
Delonte West attempted to throw a baseball at a charity game recently. [via Herbie]
A nice football play here from our friends to the North. [via Hot Clicks]
Obama on the kiss cam!
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- Sergio Garcia Made a ‘Fried Chicken’ Joke Toward Tiger Woods
- 2013 NBA Draft Lottery Complete, Order is Set: Cleveland Cavaliers Get 1st Pick
- Marvin Bagley, a 7th Grader, is 6-foot-7 and Looks to Definitely Have a Basketball Future [Video]
- Robert Griffin III Could Have Planted the Seeds of a Perception Problem After Sending Pictures of Wedding Gifts, Says Washington Writer
- resolutedefense on Sergio Garcia Made a 'Fried Chicken' Joke Toward Tiger Woods
- Dawgfather on Someone Shouted "Wooooo! We Did It! We Did It!" After San Antonio Held Off Memphis in Overtime [Video[
- WheresWallace on Sergio Garcia Made a 'Fried Chicken' Joke Toward Tiger Woods
- Nada on Sergio Garcia Made a 'Fried Chicken' Joke Toward Tiger Woods
- Nada on Someone Shouted "Wooooo! We Did It! We Did It!" After San Antonio Held Off Memphis in Overtime [Video[
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July 17th, 2012 at 8:31 AM
pay cash, billionaire.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:33 AM
roundup pic doesn’t do her justice
/Team Brunettes
July 17th, 2012 at 8:35 AM
Agreed Caribou.
Also, Zuckerberg needs a mortgage? Really? Dude’s worth billions. Maybe he’s trying to “slum” it.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:43 AM
give you the benefit of the doubt here that you’re not being snarky.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
Obama on the kiss cam!
What, no “terrorist fist bump”? Pfft…
Also, Zuckerberg needs a mortgage? Really? Dude’s worth billions. Maybe he’s trying to “slum” it.
Maybe he’s got a really expensive house? And I’m not sure exactly how much money Zuck’s got “on hand.” Isn’t most of his money tied up in investments and business?
July 17th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
buffs: agree or disagree with this piece on millennials and old movies?
So because millenials (woof, term) like the immediacy of social media to discuss entertainment, they cannot appreciate old movies? That is a statement on the people not the films. Also, those people are young. Who expects young people to get into old movies? Old songs? Old books? People don’t get into old things. Never have. Never will. Seems like that writer is trying to say old movies are dead. Pretty dumb idea.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
Stop Oxy Addiction is now following me on twitter, so I got that going for me, which is nice.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
why? what if the r/e market tanks and he paid cash…no he’s got this huge asset that’s almost impossible to liquidate. i mean…
ok, im sorry…i can’t really understand it either. $7mm is a drop in the hat to a billionaire…you take a bath on it, who cares? now you got a paintball killmansion!
July 17th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
FTFY
However, I have always enjoyed old music, books, movies, shows, etc. I’d rather watch something from the film noir genre than a lot of this new shit any day.
/Except for Wes Anderson movies.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
*meant Young People
July 17th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
I am in no way a financial expert but if you can finance a home for 1% I’m sure he could invest $7mm elsewhere for a much greater than 1% return.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:51 AM
good…less retard traffic the better.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Watched Drive last night, pretty solid. Not an all timer though.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
The mortgage makes sense. The rate will probably be below inflation so he is getting paid to borrow money. If the house goes up in value, he still receives all the upside while only putting (probably) 20-25% down and the millions he didn’t put into the home by being a cash buyer he can use to put in a different asset class that he thinks may return more than a home.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
CNN failed to mention various other things – Vicki was a disaster from the start.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
See, thats the point. You don’t have to be a financial expert to understand that. It’s so fucking simple, even a sports blog EIC can understand it. Also worth noting is its an ARM, so it’s not like it can’t change.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
marshawn lynch probably should’ve too.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Watched Drive last night, pretty solid. Not an all timer though.
But would you say among the best of 2011?
List isn’t that long.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:55 AM
Shouldn’t that read “Stephen A. Smith had the most stupid take of all on Jeremy Lin”? Not trying to nitpick, it’s just that I hear people say “stupidest” all the time, and I’m not sure if it’s even a word.
/don’t ban me
July 17th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Maybe Zuckenberg wants to be able to write off that 1% annually.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Looks like the great experiment of trying to figure out just how much the wealthy are willing to have taken from them is in full swing:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9404209/Frances-proposed-tax-hikes-spark-exodus-of-wealthy.html
July 17th, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Roeth – I read that article last weekend on CNN. while it is very one-sided (in her favor), her superiors from previous jobs and current job are on record as saying she’s great at her jobs. your link seems a little like students doing what they do best during college: railing against “the man”.
like most things, I’m sure the truth is somewhere in he middle. of course, I guess we’d need to establish the meaning of “truth” first.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:02 AM
I think by and large new comedy movies blow compared to the days of yore…Old School was a homeless man’s Animal House but sadly became beloved by my generation
July 17th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
But would you say among the best of 2011?
My movie watching is not as up-to-date as it was pre-parenthood, but the 2011 class was weak sauce. Drive had a good vibe and I couldn’t find a movie to compare it to. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy & The Hunter are the two I really want to see still, and a few others I’d like to see. We just activated a Netflix gift so we have some movies available to us the next three months I hope to keep getting some more in.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Delonte West attempted to throw a baseball at a charity game recently.
Haha. One of the five year olds on the tball team I coached came in and threw like that. I told him, “overhand only, son.” He got better.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Sounds like Penn Stat’s BOT and Administration wanted to make changes and brought in just the person to do so.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
The woman who stood up to Joe Paterno. [CNN]
CNN failed to mention various other things – Vicki was a disaster from the start.
This is a little too contrarian to the party line of “Penn State students, alumni, faculty and fans should be liquidated”. What did you know about Sandusky and when did you know it?
July 17th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Holy shit. Holy shit.
Ok, I AM NOT POSTING COMMENTS TOO QUICKLY. TBL, I HAVE SENT YOU 2 EMAILS ABOUT THIS SINCE FRIDAY, WHAT THE HELL MAN? FIX YOUR SITE.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
At 1%, the bank is practically gifting that money to Zuckerburg. He’d be an asshole not to take it.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
not exactly like they are going to live tax free, just going to another “soc1alist” society.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Ctrl-C is your friend.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
If this means Donald Trump will leave Congress should act by the end of the week
July 17th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
true. they know they will get fucked wherever they go, but sometimes it’s nice not to get fucked so hard.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Anyone else watch Fear Factor here? I totally would have gotten a tattoo of Joe Rogan’s face for a chance at $100k. I can’t believe they backed out.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Al Franken is a democrat
July 17th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Ok, I AM NOT POSTING COMMENTS TOO QUICKLY. TBL, I HAVE SENT YOU 2 EMAILS ABOUT THIS SINCE FRIDAY, WHAT THE HELL MAN? FIX YOUR SITE. CJ
Fix your site, Jason.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
I find this line of thinking amusingly misguided. of course, it’s conventional wisdom that if you can get a loan for a lower rate than you can securely invest the same amount of money, then you’re stupid to not take it. but that rule applies to us minions trying to climb up the wealth ladder. the fallacy in applying this thinking to a guy like Zuckerberg is forgetting the greatest luxury of being that rich: you don’t have to deal with the minutea bullshit of taking a mortgage out so you can own a home and then balance that low rate out by investing the same amount of money to earn a few percentage points in interest. dude can buy the home with cash and not have to pay some money manager to write his monthly mortgage checks and keep track of whether his offsetting investment that’s only going to add somewhere around an extra 0.01% (estimate!) to his net worth is still making more than that adjustable rate mortgage he took out just because he got a low rate.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
It’s a good thing he isn’t a member of the media because he would have written a scathing piece discussing the bad run he’s had recently. His site is a mess. He erroneously claimed Mark Cuban deleted a tweet. He attribtued Morey’s cap-genius to being desperate for Lin, despite him using the exact same maneuver 16 days earlier. Then, he falsely accuses Dez of being arrested twice, gets called out, and deletes his tweets.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
I was expecting to read about a lost hiker in Alaska but I guess anytime as a writer that you can cover a pilot named Assman you go for it.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:18 AM
best returns come from the KBS paintball killmansion REIT…just sayin.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:18 AM
also, fix your site, Jason.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
miz, you’re fired up about Zuckerberg. Its not like he’s $20B liquid. I’d guess the guy has in the $10s of millions liquid. I don’t know that I’d tie up $7MM if I didn’t have to either.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
July 17th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Best athletes on the planet.
/fix your site
July 17th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
The Reds are incompetent when it comes to player health.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
pretty sure the loan was for his gourmet vegan cupcake store…zuckcakes. CRISIS AVERTED.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
A third runner, 34-year-old Penny Assman, slid down a promontory and fell nearly 20 feet during the women’s race not far from where Kenney would later fall. Assman, a National Guard helicopter pilot who was competing in her first Mount Marathon race, suffered a lacerated liver and multiple bruised ribs.
I saw video of that over the weekend. I think. Booze.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
$7mm to someone with what, $40,000,000,000.00, is nothing.
it’s like if my wife and i decided to buy a new $500 laptop in cash rather than financing it.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Good read about economic efficiency and productivity swimming upstream against big government….
The Incredible Bain Jobs Machine
July 17th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
miz – its about liquidity. note that this is a refinance; not a new origination. he may very well need to do this because of the cash he has (or doesn’t have) on hand. Moreover, it’s not like his money manager is going to get rich off of handling an auto-draft loan payment. He literally will do nothing with this, and the bank will send Zuckerberg his 1099INT form around tax time and he will then give it to his army of CPA’s.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Ok. Not video. Still pics. Still horrifying.
http://sewardcitynews.com/2012/07/injured-woman-runners-status/
–
You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.
Fix your site, Jason.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
Its not like he’s $20B liquid.
This exactly.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
Safe to say that Zuckerberg has really smart financial people advising him about his money management.
Or at the very least, more qualified than bigleadsports commentors???
July 17th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
True story?
/doesn’t read TBL’s tweets
//more details, please
July 17th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Mortgage talk? THIS IS AS EXCITING AS GOLF CLUB TALK!
July 17th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Obviously we’re not qualified, but TBL’s wife did take an econ class in college, so she’s the local authority.
/fix your site
July 17th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
who is more qualified than us?
July 17th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
See, you guys were calling me out when I floated the possibility that TBL didn’t want to remove the throttling of comments. Well, until it gets fixed, that’s the narrative I’m sticking with.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
who is more qualified than us?
exactly. Wisdom of crowds.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
my favorite mr. show sketch…ronnie dobbs.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Oh yeah, and I’ve figured out a way to avoid the throttling, so joking aside, I think it is probably one of those problems that takes a little while to work out.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
consider yourself lucky you don’t read his tweets
/fix your site
July 17th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Good point…Zuckerberg’s a fucking idiot.
/Facebook is the devil
July 17th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Isnt Zuck doing a service to society by taking out a mortgage? Giving business to a local bank or whatever? I dunno.
/Fix your site, Jason
July 17th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Well, some of us are big boys who are interested in big boy problems, beyond whether or not to get high on company time.
/You’re posting comments too quickly. Slow down.
//fix your site
July 17th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
1. Can I get some quarters
2. HE TOLD THE TRUTH
3. Recumbent bicycle tech guru
Wait someone called you out for that? I agree. This is the fix.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Great summary of PurdueMatt’s link:
July 17th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
He’s doing himself a service by accepting virtually free money from a bank.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
The fetishizing of home ownership after WWII is one of the worst things to ever happen to this country and is a direct cause of the economic crisis we’re in right now. Renting is such a more viable option and people are looked down upon for it because of politicians’ decades of preaching the merits of home ownership as a short sighted method to prop up the industry.
/blow me.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
soon this site will have as many comments as Deadspin does.
/cashes out Paolo points
July 17th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
He deleted them? Shocking
July 17th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Run Ronnie Run is an underrated movie, too.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
I realize this, but people are calling him a dick. My contention is that he might be actually contributing to society by doing this.
/FIX YOUR SITE
July 17th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
not really fired up about it. just opinionated on that line of thinking about taking out loans when you have the means to not have to take them out. I didn’t click the link, but I’m guessing the house in question is $7million, no? pretending it is, let’s run the numbers: $7 million at 1% over 30 years is an approximately $22,500/month mortgage payment (assuming no down payment and nor mortgage insurance since he’s “low risk”). over the life of the loan, he pays out slightly more than $1.1 million in interest. if he invests the same $7 million at 3% (we’ll go conservative), then he’ll have $17 million after 30 years. so, over 30 years, he made monthly mortgage payments and had to monitor the adjusting mortgage rate against his investment to make sure it never gets over 3% cause then he would be needlessly losing money. congratulations, Mark, you’ve made almost $9 million at best. compared to your net worth, the amount of money you just made is equivalent percentage-wise to what a normal person makes by leaving money in a checking account.
the point is this guy likely isn’t worried about penching pennies. of course, he can do whatever the hell he wants with his money…it’s his money. but why subject himself to the headache of a mortgage when he can literally (not literally) dig the the money to pay off the full principle out of his couch cushions?
July 17th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
Taxes, people.
No matter how much money you think you have, you still will do anything you can to limit what you give to the government.
Interest payments = deductible.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:37 AM
home ownership is fine, it would be much more affordable if wages kept pace with the increase in cost of living and home values over the years.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Spencer – hard not to like this price:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LH-Titleist-Golf-910D2-Driver-9-5-Stiff-Flex-Diamana-Kaili-65-Graphite-Shaft-/130730744803?pt=Golf_Clubs&hash=item1e7028dbe3
/knows it should go down even more when the 913 arrives
//can’t wait any longer
July 17th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Agreed, although the renting demand curve has shifted dramatically recently, where renting is not automatically the cheaper option, down payment nonwithstanding, of course.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
The column had me until this, it’s one thing to argue for new corporate tax codes (including eliminating them altogether) as a means to stimulate growth but there is such thing as a greater good that trumps profits and I’d say trying to keep the planet from becoming a dump faster than it already has been is one of those
July 17th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Home ownership itself is of course fine, I’m referring to the idea that everyone should own a home. That’s one of the worst lines of thinking ever.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
I have a fetish for not giving my money away.
/equity
//tax deductions
July 17th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Traditionally real estate has appreciated in value, which makes renting moronic.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
July 17th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Reading that article on “millenials” and old movies. Got as far as this before I began choking on the pretentiousness:
the difference between the attitude of boomers and that of the millennials is that boomer audiences didn’t necessarily believe their aesthetics were an advance over those that had preceded them.
Oh God! Oh wow! Someone open a window! The stench of pretentious ass is getting thick in here! Someone please tell the kids to get off the lawn!
July 17th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
No to mention the tax benefits.
/oh, and fix this site
July 17th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
It’s official: this site sucks and I’m considering moving on … suggestions? (2 tries to post this)
July 17th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Glad I’ve been busy and not had a chance to complain about the site…
/oligatory fix the site
July 17th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
even that line of thinking is fine. the problem is the execution where the system allows people who have no business owning a home they can’t afford.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
I’m not reading that old movies article, but “It’s a Wonderful Life” is one of the worst movies ever made and people agreed with that sentiment when it came out. Old people are fucking idiots.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
The column had me until this, it’s one thing to argue for new corporate tax codes (including eliminating them altogether) as a means to stimulate growth but there is such thing as a greater good that trumps profits and I’d say trying to keep the planet from becoming a dump faster than it already has been is one of those
I’d settle for keeping the needles out of the lousy airline sandwiches. I mean, the low costs of not having to hire food inspectors might be good for Delta, but it’s not good for their repeat customers business.
/Fix yo site, Jason…
July 17th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
For the Dufner fans –
http://www.telly.com/N7TXA?fromtwitvid=1
/ please fix the comments. thanks.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
If he donated every penny of that to charity, it could do an awful lot of good, yes? 9 mil is 9 mil people.
/FIX YOUR SITE
July 17th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Let’s all at once go over to TVF and break their server
July 17th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
dammit…you guys are gonna flood the market and devaule my points.
/buys gold with Paolo points
re comments 1, 37, and 74: ultimately, this is just a personal opinion. I think the greatest luxury of wealth is not having to deal with the bullshit headache of trying to make a couple of percentage points of money by participating in an exercise like balancing a mortgage rate against a potential low-risk investment. it’s GREAT advice for the middle class and lower upper class. but, to me, at some point you’ve made enough money to not have to think about that anymore.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
Agreed. The downside to this is when we have government telling us that everyone should own homes and forces banks to make it worth their while. Some people just don’t need to own their home, just like some people don’t need to go college, or need to own a car, etc etc. However, if you can reasonably afford to do those things then knock yourself out. Just don’t get overextended to the point where the bank recoups their losses by passing those costs on to the other members/customers of the bank.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
I’ll race you there!
July 17th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
The line of thinking leads to people taking those horrid mortgages though. You’re made to feel like a schmuck if you don’t own.
Personally I love renting because I like not being tied down somewhere. I don’t think I’ve lived in one house or apartment for more than twelve months straight since I was eighteen.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
How about a reddit subgroup??
r/TBL
r/TheBigLead
r/exileisland
July 17th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
C’mon guys. That server is much better than Frank Frank here
July 17th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Yeah this is what I was trying to say.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Oh my god that sounds like hell. I HATE moving.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
How about a reddit subgroup??
That would be incredible. I would love to see this group of people interact with the Reddit people — that would be quite the overlap.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Got a new server a few months back. Things are pretty good over there.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Or, the greatest luxury of wealth is having the ability to pay people to do all the work for you. Then you reap the monetary benefits without any of the effort.
/fix your site, Jason
July 17th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Quite the little revolt going on here today.
/pulls up chair
//cracks cold one
July 17th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
I think the key term there is “government mandated”. Eventually, the technological advances in dish detergent and light bulbs become the norm. But when government mandates something before the price levels off or before a business is in a position to spend capital on it, it’s more harm than good. A clean planet will not matter much to most people if unemployment stays where it is or God forbid, rises.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
So do I, but it’s a great way to minimalize the amount of crap one owns. I’m moving again at the end of my current leas in October (I love my house, would stay if I could) to get a place with my partner and while she has a storage unit full of crap I have basically one car full of possessions. Streamlined!
THE KING IS DEAD LONG LIVE THE KING
July 17th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Test
July 17th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Test one two.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
this is probably another insight into my psyche…I hate paying people to do things I can do myself.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Test one two three!
I figured out how to beat the system. Which tells me the error is either intentional or an obscenely lazy piece of coding.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
because things go so well when the government doesn’t mandate businesses use more efficient or less deadly products. after all, we know that all business are run with a conscience and the bottomline is never more important than doing the right thing.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
fix your site, Jason.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
soon this site will have as many comments as Deadspin does.
/cashes out Paolo points
So…It’ll just be 3 people cracking jokes and the rest of us saying “+1″ all the time? Thanks but no thanks.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
what’s the secret, mole!?
July 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Exactly. The mere fact that we have to “trick” the system speaks volumes to the lack of concern for the readers’ ability to interact with each other.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
AWESOME!!!
July 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Do an f5 hard refresh on the page before you comment.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
THE KING IS DEAD LONG LIVE THE KING
I would comment more — but apparently I comment too fast, like everyone else. Speaking of too fast — I was always Baby Mario in Mario Tennis. That dude could get to EVERYTHING.
July 17th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
I figured out how to beat the system
Well, we’re waiting!
July 17th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Mole – don’t tell them! This is our Lord of the Flies moment!
July 17th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
i dunno…pretty easy to not like it. $260 for a soon-to-be outdated driver with a “made for” shaft? im sure you can find WAY better.
/fix your site
July 17th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
My money’s on the former
July 17th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Most of them are, just not the ones that make the evening news.
/turn off CNN
July 17th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
I always used a team of Waluigi and DK, I literally never lost, but then I was playing against dudes who preferred playing Halo because they had abysmal taste in video games.
… wait the system might have bitten back. FIX YO SITE
July 17th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Spencer – after I posted that i realized it wasn’t an OBO, so I probably can’t talk the guy down. I don’t mind the “made for” shafts out there, because after my fitting it was pretty obvious the benefits of a boutique shaft (or at least an enthusiast model) would show little benefit to me (i.e. gotta fix my form first, then worry about the minutiae of shaft specs).
July 17th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
PHENOMENAL!!!
July 17th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Hahahahahaha.
Yeah it’s the liberal bias that’s impacting things.
/watched first hand the NC textile and furniture industries get shipped overseas for ten years crippling half the state, but it’s the media’s fault.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
Fuck this moron, six of dumb fucks writing about benign accepted cultural practices through the pretense of “facebook changed everything.”
Also recycling movies has everything to do with movie economics and nothing to do with narcissism.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
I hope Anderson leaves Maryland to save the program the money that they would have to pay when they fire both him and Edsall.
/Tries to post: 2
July 17th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
some made for shafts are fine…and id include the made for kai’li in there too.
youd always get SOME benefit from a shaft with a bend profile that fits your swing…thing is, sometimes a made for will fit fine and there are a lot of cheaper options with the same bend profile as a premium shaft.
just commenting on the deal tho…not the quality of the club.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
It would be easiest if the NCAA just kicked Penn State out of the NCAA.
That would be the easiest thing to do?
July 17th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
yeesh…halo was counterstrike without all that pesky charm and charisma.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
i’m skeptical of any business to do the right thing when the bottom line is effected. as anyone should.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
I always used a team of Waluigi and DK
Waluigi was a beast in that game. Best all around player.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:05 AM
ohheelyea…if you’re looking for a good deal on an awesome 910, here you go.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:05 AM
I figured out how to beat the system. Which tells me the error is either intentional or an obscenely lazy piece of coding.
I am for certain it is intentional. This has been going since the server “upgrade” on Thursday.
Fix Your Site, USA TODAY.
You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.
Oh, fuck you.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
I’ve not had the comment issue, what’s going on?
July 17th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Replaced my stock (Callaway X24s) PW, SW and my old ass LW with Cleveland 588s over the weekend. Went out and played yesterday and good lord those wedges are awesome.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Fuck this moron, six of dumb fucks writing about benign accepted cultural practices through the pretense of “facebook changed everything.”
Also recycling movies has everything to do with movie economics and nothing to do with narcissism.
What made me laugh about that piece is that he name checks Scorcese and Coppola, forgetting that those two were part of a whole movement in the early 70s that rejected traditional Hollywood for a harder and grittier take on movies — which many of the critics and filmmakers of the time disliked.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Consistent “Slow down, you’re commenting too fast” errors.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Heel turn: complete.
Dust 2, get that machine gun action going, blast through the double doors, BLADOW
Attempt 5: yeah the refresh thing isn’t working anymore. Oh well, I tried. Which is more than Jeremy Lin can say about the playoffs.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
almost every comment receives and error “you are posting too quickly. slow down”
even if it’s your first comment since Friday.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
I’ve been pulling for State Penn to get the death penalty for decades
/fix your site
July 17th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
I have no idea about all this government talk, but I do know one thing… Maria Menounos can get it!!!
/Kim K who?
July 17th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
I’ll comment faster
July 17th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Said Alan Greenspan on the issue of the derivative market being unregulated. How did that go?
/Fuck off with this nonsense
July 17th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
maybe then it will come up
July 17th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Ah, that’s the beauty of the thing, come winter the gorillas will freeze to death.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
twss
July 17th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Ah, so this isn’t an accident.
/3rd try
July 17th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
humidity, you’re a bitch
/it was my first comment of the day and it was apparently too fast.
//get better I.T. people
July 17th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
i dug em…REAL nice. heard a lot of criticism that the graphics look like vokeys, but who gives a shit?
went with nikes but easily couldve bagged the 588s, vokeys, mizzy’s and callaways. only wedge i was disappointed in was the ping tour-s rustique which i really wanted to love.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
and the sooner the planet becomes a dump the sooner we can colonize and terraform Mars and Venus.
and the moon!
July 17th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
lol
July 17th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
That’s what they get for not hailing to the chimp.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
I’m convinced it’s intentional, and it’s complete bullshit. If Jason wants to start over with the comments, then man up, say it, and do it. Don’t pull this pussy behind the scenes crap, and then claim to send e-mails to the Tech Help Desk.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
i always loved the aug…IM A SURGEON WITH THIS BITCH JAKE.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Tested Vokeys, Callaways and Nikes. Hard to get an actual feel for them in a simulator, but I’ve carried a Cleveland CG15 as my GW for about a year and a half and love the way I can control it. Really liked the Vokeys, but the 588s and my experience with my CG15 won out. Had 6 GIRs yesterday which is probably a record for me. Too bad I couldn’t hit a putt to save my life.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Notice he has barely commented during the day lately. Agree, if this is his plan, it’s a pussy plan.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
I’ll comment faster
That has nothing to do with it.
Heel turn: complete.
I laughed. Hope it isn’t true.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Even knowing the work-around, this approach is in fact bullshit. You can’t cite increased readership and say the site is getting better all the time. The increased readers are equally as pissed that they are getting comments throttled as are the old guard.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
My pussy plan: beat the pussy up.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
/wanders over to tvf to look around
July 17th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
The rules of this site don’t apply to Lisk…he is The One
July 17th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
Spencer – the point i was trying to make was that the “made for” options I tried this weekend all worked fine. I tried a few higher end shafts, but there wasn’t a discernible (see, financial) reason to upgrade to them. Also, that club you sent me is a rightie.
/fucking rightie’s and their exponentially larger selection of used clubs
July 17th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
I love the look of those Mizuno MP T-11′s with the black nickel finish.
/please fix the site
July 17th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
yea, familiarity is a big key. i used to have this nike sv 56* that was my first real wedge that i hit great and never really adjusted too well to the vokeys. i think there’s some credence to a golfer finding a certain brand fits their game better…if youre confident, it’ll probably perform.
welcome to the support group…there’s coffee and hydrox in the back. youre with friends now. it’s not your fault.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
You guys really think this is intentional?
/says a little prayer before hitting submit
July 17th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
a) yea, i think we’re in agreement here regarding MF shafts.
b) sorry i keep forgetting youre a lefty…that’s just so…weird, man.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
it took 3 tries to post that last comment
July 17th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
WordPress commenting system, should be an easy fix. Wager it’s the spam filter settings on a new server that someone half assed altered.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
Man I just realized how insane we sound with the comment conspiracy theories. But it’s not like we don’t have reason for the paranoia. That’s what they said about the Bilderberg Group.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
ooo…i learned something new today!
July 17th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
In all fairness, the wifi coverage of the endless pools at some of these exotic locations can be spotty.
/fix your site, Jason
July 17th, 2012 at 10:26 AM
wonder if they are moving the comments over to a USAToday partner, or crafting some synergy with Facebook or Twitter.
or the old guard is being pushed out so the new, EIC friendly commenters can come here and praise JMac’s articles and writing skill.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Well TBL feigned not knowing the problem last thursday. we bitched and moaned about it for over an hour, and then he tepidly asks what the problem is. We tell him, he says he’ll get on it, and here it is 5 days later and the same problems exist, without so much as a peep from him on why thats the case (nor responding to our legitimate trolling of him to “fix his site”). Also, remember a few months back when he mentioned the idea of overhauling the comment section? I don’t remember the exact details (or if they were ever given out,which I doubt they would be), but it was alluded to that there would be some changes coming to them.
I’m not saying TBL/USA Today can’t do whatever they want to. It’s just sad that its not been addressed/fixed or even owned up to (assuming the change was calculated and not merely a mistake).
July 17th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Man I just realized how insane we sound with the comment conspiracy theories. But it’s not like we don’t have reason for the paranoia. Mole
Insanity can be sane sometimes.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
A bunch of tin foil hats up in here. Is it universal or specific to certain commenters? I have admin rights so I probably bypass whatever feature is causing this since my comments aren’t subject to mod.
I think it’s funny that people think this was some sort of intentional thing. Remember two weeks ago when the whole site was down? It was because we didn’t want to see your comments on a Friday. Had a good laugh about that one.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
IT’S A GOD DAMNED PURGE. the website of long knives.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
/wanders over to tvf to look around
just went over myself. Kicked the tires and threw in a comment. Gotta keep my options open.
/fingers crossed……
July 17th, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Like having sex with a fat chick.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Fix your site Jason.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
While I don’t think this is intentional, I wouldn’t be surprised if TBL didn’t exactly put every effort into getting it fixed either.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Doesn’t appear that way
probably
well, once you have been made aware of the situation, ignoring it (see, not fixing it) is intentional.
/knows how to avoid it now, so i will give TBL a shred of hope that its just a bad code or default setting
July 17th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
FIX THE SITE FOR CHRISTSAKES!
/testing
July 17th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Jason it would seem to be universal. Several people have said it’s the first time they’ve commented in years and it has come up.
Could well just be the spam filter, not like the WP system was perfect before this by any means.
Still, at least it’s not Kinja.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
seems everyone has run into the problem.
as an admin, want to help us out?
July 17th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Thank you, thank you.
/coffee’s cold
//4 putts to a double bogey on the way back to my desk
July 17th, 2012 at 10:35 AM
When a matter gets left unaddressed, people resort to making up their own excuses.
/McNair’d
July 17th, 2012 at 10:35 AM
Jesus. go see a doctor.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Yeah Friday afternoons I’m actively racing to make myself as stupid as possible.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
I think it’s funny that people think this was some sort of intentional thing.
It has been five days. People have mentioned emailing TBL about it. TBL even came on here on Friday and said he only got one email. While I doubt the problem is intentional, the lack of getting it fixed does appear to be intentional.
/Probably the spam thing Mole is talking about.
You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.
Oh, for fuck’s sakes. Again.
Fix Your Site, USA TODAY.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
If I had to guess, the problem is the akismet spam plugin, since when you comment one of the post variables is akismet_comment_nonce. I’d start there, but I’ve offered tech support in the past and been ignored.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Maria Menounos can still get it
July 17th, 2012 at 10:39 AM
A bunch of tin foil hats up in here. Is it universal or specific to certain commenters?
Seems like just about everyone’s gotten it. The thing is, it’s totally random: you could have just thrown a comment up and it’ll let another one by OR you could have just be putting up your first comment since Thursday and it’ll get you.
As for the tin foils, well, if you have a site and you don’t fix the errors that come up, what excuse can there be?
July 17th, 2012 at 10:40 AM
i hope that limb you went so far out on doesn’t break.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Sites are being attacked with spammers relentlessly recently. Many sites are having issues. The attackers have stepped up their game in the past 2 months. In the mean time pass the bong and enjoy…
July 17th, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Maria Menounos – side pics her asss looks awesome. back pics her asss looks a little flabby. not sure how i view her but id fukc her for sure.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:43 AM
I bet you were patting your baby bump when you typed this.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:44 AM
+1
July 17th, 2012 at 10:44 AM
id fukc her
dysexic
July 17th, 2012 at 10:45 AM
I emailed TBL Friday, again this morning. I just tweeted at him just looking for him to respond that he was aware. I get this back:
Jason McIntyre @TheBigLead
@pedroiar is that your kid!?
July 17th, 2012 at 10:46 AM
so what should we name the subreddit?
July 17th, 2012 at 10:47 AM
I bet you were patting your baby bump when you typed this.
+1
only 1? miz, i’ll see that +1 and raise it to +3
/what you got heel?
July 17th, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Forgot to add:
/face palm
July 17th, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Jason McIntyre @TheBigLead
@pedroiar is that your kid!? CJ
Fantastic.
/goes and buys more tin foil.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
buns’o'fun
July 17th, 2012 at 10:51 AM
I can’t believe the comments thing is intentional. 2 reasons:
1. It’s wordpress – which can be sketchy anyway
2. No way in hell Jason’s smart enough to implement a piece of code such as this, deep in worpress.
/waits for sharpened banhammer
July 17th, 2012 at 10:54 AM
hilarious.
counterpoint: HIS SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES!!
July 17th, 2012 at 10:55 AM
I can’t believe the comments thing is intentional. 2 reasons:
1. It’s wordpress – which can be sketchy anyway
2. No way in hell Jason’s smart enough to implement a piece of code such as this, deep in worpress.
The problem probably isn’t intentional, but the lack of acknowledging and fixing the problem is.
July 17th, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Do most here think Jason Mc is d bag? He does seem pretty douchey
July 17th, 2012 at 11:01 AM
pours one out for ddmcd1974
July 17th, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Nice meeting you
July 17th, 2012 at 11:02 AM
/pours one out for beekeeper ben, dirt, jpq, etc.
//does not pour one out for ATL Badger
July 17th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Do most here think Jason Mc is d bag? He does seem pretty douchey
Actually, quite the opposite.
And, BTW – the hard refresh (F5) doesn’t always work.
July 17th, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Do most here think Jason Mc is d bag? He does seem pretty douchey
I used to send links to him back in the old days and he was always cool with me. Twitter has taken a lot of people out of the comments, TBL included. I haven’t had much interaction with him in about three years.
July 17th, 2012 at 11:09 AM
You just have to keep doing it, eventually it goes through hitting the continue button, I am using chrome.
July 17th, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Where else are we going to get celeb banging stories.
If anything, ddmcd1974 needs to post more.
/fix site
//5th time